Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interesting point: the tactics adopted by Tschigorin (black pieces) are now considered obsolete by modern theorists...
...autumn offensive of Communist General Lin Piao's "United Democratic Army" had begun Oct. 1. Pinching from both sides of the Mukden-Changchun railway, it had quickly crunched more than 100 miles of the Government-held corridor. Changchun itself, which the Japanese had planned as the modern stone & steel capital city of Manchuria, was surrounded., The big iron works at Anshan (or what remained after Russian removals following V-J day) were at the edge of the Nationalist line, 55 miles south of Mukden. Communists pressed nearer the great open-pit coal mines at Fushun...
...saws screech through oaken timbers and pine planking; middle-aged craftsmen, wielding adzes, cut keels so that they look as though they had been planed. U.S. yachtsmen and game fishermen set off the boom. They had discovered that Nova Scotians could still build stout, trim sailing craft, besides modern power boats-and build them cheap...
...reached its peak in 19th Century England. Walt Disney himself would need a lot of film to match the action in Randolph Caldecott's Panjandrum Picture Book (published in 1885). And Kate Greenaway's grave little watercolors for Under the Window and Marigold Garden are still as modern-to children's eyes-as they were when Critic John Ruskin devoted a lecture at Oxford to "The Place of Kate Greenaway in Modern...
...Modern Treatment. Cholera, an infection of the digestive tract, kills chiefly by removing water from the body. The blood gets too thick to circulate, and death comes from "shock." Modern treatment knocks off the vibrios (comma-shaped, whiskery bacteria) with sulfa drugs, and dilutes the thickening blood with saline solution or serum. The vaccine has worked well. No one receiving two injections (cost: 3?) has yet got the disease; only one who has had a single shot has come down with...